The choice of converting expresses in some way the act of taking sides on part of the subject or of the group as regards the complexity of beliefs, of the rites and the moral norms: this position of taking sides is the result of a comparison or a confrontation that, in the final analysis, means to express a judgment of truth. Conversion is not simply the re-composition of a picture that tries to put together elements of different provenance, but the true construction of a “code of complexity” capable of putting the converted believer in touch with the social and cultural environment in which he lives. In this chapter we analyse a peculiar case of conversion that in the 1960s involved practically the whole village of Montaner, a center of about 2,000 inhabitants located about one hundred kilometres north of Venice.
Conversion as opposition
GIORDAN, GIUSEPPE
2009
Abstract
The choice of converting expresses in some way the act of taking sides on part of the subject or of the group as regards the complexity of beliefs, of the rites and the moral norms: this position of taking sides is the result of a comparison or a confrontation that, in the final analysis, means to express a judgment of truth. Conversion is not simply the re-composition of a picture that tries to put together elements of different provenance, but the true construction of a “code of complexity” capable of putting the converted believer in touch with the social and cultural environment in which he lives. In this chapter we analyse a peculiar case of conversion that in the 1960s involved practically the whole village of Montaner, a center of about 2,000 inhabitants located about one hundred kilometres north of Venice.
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